Why and How I wrote the Book Advancing Your Photography

I’ve been a photographer most of my life and teaching is a role I’ve continually found myself in since becoming a mountaineering instructor at 19.  After many workshops where I quoted notable photographers as having said this or that, a flash hit me—why not interview them and let others hear from them directly? One

What are your Photography Goals for 2016?

Hey, like everything in life, if you don't set your photography goals, they're not likely to just happen on by and knock on your door. Let me ask you, when was the last time you thought about your goals as a photographer? Lots of us keep going out and shooting the same pictures over and

Life Through Photography: An Exclusive with Marc Silber

Our very own executive producer, Marc Silber, was featured on This Week in Photography. “My love of photography began when I was in grade school and grew as a means of telling visual stories. As the etymology of photography is “light writing” I find photography and film to be my favorite forms of ‘ writing’

Powerful Women in Photography

This week in Advancing Your Photography, we focused on two powerful women in photography: Bambi Cantrell and Anna Kuperberg. Research performed by Kodak a few years ago revealed that 90% of the world's photographs are purchased by women. To Bambi Cantrell, this is not only an astronomical number but it also provides insight into why

My 48 Years of Photography

Chairs Peninsula School, 1964 I've been at this a long time, and as today is my birthday, it's easy to look back and see just how long this magical mystery tour called photography has been. The above is my earliest published photograph, taken when I was 12 at Peninsula School, where I learned photography and learned that creating would guide way of life. (Don't worry, I'm not going to

What Was the Mojo for These Nine Artists?

What Was the Mojo for These Nine Artists? mojo • ˈmōˌjō  • noun,  a magic charm, talisman, or spell: someone must have their mojo working over at the record company • magic power  - Oxford American What is that X quality that great artists have? What gives them the mojo?  I've been gnawing on that question for a while, but this morning it really started to demand attention like an itch that makes